Dafna Rachok
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medical & political anthropologist: global health, bureaucracies, humanitarianism | Assistant Prof @UNC | geek & sci fi fan🖖 | 🦮 owner | a 🇺🇦
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I sometimes write short non-academic pieces about things that matter to me. My latest piece is about humanitarianism (again) and volunteering during the war and it was published a few days ago by
@uafemnet
Link in the next comment
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As a
#Ukrainian
-born anthropologist whose area of expertise is
#Ukraine
, I am horrified and shocked by the number of scholars whose expertise is elsewhere yet they insist on explaining this
#war
resorting to
#NATO
whataboutism 🤦♀️
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Took an Uber in Warsaw today & the driver was from Tajikistan. So we quickly started talking about the war ofc. He told me his classmate went to work in Moscow, was imprisoned as an “illegal” & then forcefully mobilized and sent to war. The guy was killed within one month… 1/2
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How does an occupation look like on an everyday level? A short explainer.
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It’s like an effing joke. What do a random Ukrainian and a Tajikistani person have in common? They both know someone who was murdered by Russia
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Dear bloggers and journalists discussing Ukraine, please NEVER, never ever say “crisis” when referring to what’s going on in my country now. There is no crisis whatsoever. It is a full-scale russian invasion that we’re successfully resisting
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A woman from Tokmak (Zaporizhzhia oblast) returns home and sees that her door lock is broken. Inside her apartment, there is a woman from russia who tells the owner: “My husband, a ru military man, and I live here from now on. Get lost.”
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Occupation, war destroy your life on this very basic level. Your privacy is violated, your homes taken away, you cease to exist. The occupiers don’t give a damn if you live or die.
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Hi
@BASEES
, since when do you host speakers who actively and intentionally spread misinformation about the invasion of Ukraine (Rapoport) and call Ukrainians “freaks without kin or tribe” (Andreevskih)? Just curious
#basees2023
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I, a scholar of and from Ukraine, was asked today to contribute a text based on my research of Ukraine for a resource specializing on Russia under the rubric “All the Russias”…
Show it to all those still asking why we need to decolonize East European/Slavic/Eurasian studies
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An Ukr woman from Tokmak was furious and threw the occupier’s wife out of her house with bare hands and many obscenities. Now though this woman has to hide and try to flee the occupied territory as she’s in danger for standing up to the occupiers.
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What is the first thing you do in the morning? Coffee? Shower? Morning sex? I check for:
1. air raid alerts
2. where there were bombings during the night
3. is there electricity and water
4. check on friends & relatives in the regions that were bombed
What’s your morning routine?
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A colleague who fled the occupied east says that some ru military commander and his wife took her apartment. When her mother returned to the apartment to pick up some clothes and children toys, the commander’s wife met her wearing my colleague’s pajama’s and bathrobe…
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I’m really proud and want to boast: my good friend Nika is the first woman in Ukraine who works as a deminer and mine dog trainer in the State Emergency Service. Here’s a photo of her and her working dog, German shepherd named Gosha 💛💙
A bit of my friend’s story below
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A man from Melitopol who still has family there says that his relatives spend a few days every week in his house, so it doesn’t look abandoned and the russians don’t take the house away and put their own people there.
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President Zelensky announced today that he is establishing a new tradition in Ukraine: Iftar will be celebrated at the official level to embrace and emphasize diversity inside 🇺🇦
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The mother almost spit on it and decided not to take anything that was touched by the occupiers, who took even people’s underwear…
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Needless to say, most of these people read neither Ukrainian nor Russian, never did research in this part of the world, and were unable to name three major Ukrainian cities before the war started.
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Let’s just pause for a moment and celebrate Ukrainian critical infrastructure workers 👏👏👏 We often take electricity, heating, cell coverage, Internet for granted, but it is infrastructure workers who are behind these miracles, keeping us warm and connected
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This is so so so ♾️ good! Yes, fund Ukrainian, Polish, Baltic studies; don’t equate russia with “Slavic studies” or Eastern Europe or “the (post)Soviet”. It is time to do away with Moscow-centric view of history, culture, and politics
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I wonder if there was ANY reaction from said UK universities? And if there wasn’t any, maybe the student body or local Ukr diaspora and allies can protest and prompt one? It’s not the first time academia is implicated in such kind of things and it should be held accountable
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Kyiv right now. My dog’s face reads: “Again? Again…” She’ll turn two in June. Full-scale war lasts almost all her life: she’s been hearing sirens she was an 8-months old puppy
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A few screenshots from Bella’s Tg channel, where she writes that “ZSU also kill people” and “russians built a new symphony music hall in Mariupol, we bring infrastructure” 🫠
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Today I learned that a couple from Mariupol I met a few years ago died from overdose last week. They were stuck in Mariupol without methadone and with a severe abstinence syndrome. In 🇺🇦, they were patients of a state-funded harm reduction program and they were healthy and well.
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And here’s a full thread with more screenshots
a Russian activist and academic actively building a career abroad, insult Ukrainians and says that she does not care about the war and will tear them apart for insults toward Lermontov.
@TampereUni
, are you still providing a platform for this aggressive Russian imperialist?
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After black outs in Kyiv, I’m looking at all these lights in Chicago and thinking “wow, they don’t bother saving electricity at all” [good envy] I was also hurrying to reach my hotel before 11pm only to realize that there is no curfew here… Wartime habits be like…
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@ShmatkoIvan
As a blonde blue eyed person I can attest that I’m never taken to be Ukrainian anywhere I go. Even in Ukraine, people often tell me how uncommon it is and I totally agree. I mean all our folklore is literally about brown eyes, brown hair, etc.
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So every time some European official says 🇺🇦 should concede territory, they essentially say that people should die from not being able to buy medicine. They may coat it in smart words but the truth is that simple.
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my great-grandpa stole a piglet from a collective farm because his family was almost dying from hunger & all they had was taken from them. Knowing he would be killed for this, the whole family packed overnight and left their village.
#RussianColonialism
must end
my great-grandmother and her three kids were rescued by a Qirimli family from the artificial hunger of the Holodomor genocide. today Qirimli and Ukrainian families survive through another elimination campaign by russians.
this endless cycle of
#RussianColonialism
must end
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How to tell that a book was written by a Western scholar without telling you the book was written by a Western scholar
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Can we send the sign language interpreter to represent us on Eurovision? She is amazing 🤩
#vidbir
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“The [Russian] body has a tumor — it is in Ukraine, and we have to cure it,” he told me. “[…] Our task is clear and will be accomplished” (from the latest
@nytimes
reporting on the ru invasion).
Do Westerners start to wake up to ru genocidal imperialism or am I too optimistic?
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It is a new feeling for me to read a book about a political movement I used to be a part of and to recognize my fellow student activists in the book’s characters ☺️
Thank you,
@channelljustice
for documenting so meticulously student self-organization and political activism!
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I joined the
@HURI_Harvard
’s
#TCUPReadsPlokhy
club this semester. Gonna be honest, I didn’t think I’d read this book: it’s about very recent history of Ukraine, the events I have lived through and remember. The events that still trigger some very sad feelings and memories
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Today I shortly spoke to a woman who lives in a region of 🇺🇦 that is now under 🇷🇺 occupation. Before the war she worked in an NGO that helped vulnerable people. She decided to stay when the region was occupied as she didn’t want to leave the vulnerable behind.
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I had a job interview today. Please keep you fingers crossed for me 🤞
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After northern Kyiv oblast was deoccupied, the world learned the word Bucha. Now, mass graves and tortured civilians are found in almost every deoccupied village and town in the east: Izium, Lyman,etc. So if you want peace = you want 🇺🇦 victory. It’s the only way to stop genocide
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“If decolonizing Russia means that Russia collapses, what does it mean then? That Russia is an empire”
@ksvarnon
slays at the
@HURI_Harvard
Decolonizing Ukraine conference
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This is the list of writers, poets, and translators who died because of the russian invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇦
Please remember their names
Письменники, поети і перекладачі, що загинули або померли через російську війну в Україні
Список укладено
@garryshoww
за моєї невеличкої участі. Перелік неповний. Порядок абсолютно довільний
1 Гліб Бабич
2 Віра Гирич
3 Володимир Вакуленко-К
4 Ілля Чернілевський
5 Наталя Харакоз
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In case you (or your friends) are in Washington DC these days, don’t forget to come to the Ukrainian House and check out the exhibition about 🏳️🌈 Ukrainians who are fighting and volunteering to ensure 🇺🇦 freedom!
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I can honestly tell you that being sick while power, heat, and connection are absent absolutely sucks. Esp when it’s freezing outside. But I‘ll be ok. Think though of many many other Ukrainians who will die this winter from cold or frostbite or smth that can be easily prevented
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Many ppl today are trying to debunk Briahna Joy Gray ghoulish rhetoric about 🇺🇦 But when I look at the clips from her pod, all I think is how cozy that studio of her is. Simple, right? And yet, so many of us here are deprived of the simplest things: coziness of our home
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@BASEES
Thank you for your swift and thoughtful response and unwavering commitment to supporting Ukraine! 💙💛
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I haven’t been to Donbas in more than a decade, so I’m really glad to have come to Kramators’k today
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This history of medicine book is really interesting. But then I stumbled onto THIS. This book was written by a university professor, published by a uni book press, and nobody spotted this in the process. Eastern Europe, its history and culture, deserve better!
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I’m turning 33 today 🥳
To celebrate my birthday, I am doing a small fundraiser to help Ukraine with its resistance and humanitarian relief. I will distribute all money I collect between a few worthy and trusted causes, and will post a report about it. The link is below!
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Every day my social media feeds are full of eulogies. It hurts when you don’t know the person & it rips your heart apart when you do. Every time someone asks “but why are Ukrainians so angry?” — tell them this: because each our day starts and ends with reading yet another eulogy
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All the anthro talk about decolonization and epistemic injustices for the last half century and voilà — a discussion about the invasion of Ukraine on the pages of Focaal is not only all male but also all armchair: not one of these authors has been to Ukraine since February 2022
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I so hope that after Ukraine wins, Putin is dethroned and bloody dictators like Asad and Lukashenka fall without the Russian military support behind their regimes. We in 🇺🇦 support our Syrian brothers and sisters and we understand their pain like no one else
I hope Ukrainians are aware of how satisfying 🇷🇺 losses in your country are to Syrians whose country was destroyed by Russian air strikes and mercenaries to prop up Assad.
We were denied justice ourselves, but we can try to enjoy what it might have been like through your eyes.
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Another woman from Mariupol whom I met when doing research a few yrs ago told that the car her husband and she were trying to flee in was shot. Her husband died.
So I can’t even start telling you how much rage boils within me when I see stupid shit like that from Westerners.
I hope that folks with hokey alt accounts on this website start rethinking their choices & political allegiances. This thread started as an indictment of westsplaining but now I am seeing more and more of this sort of thing and, while I know “this is the internet,” this is sick.
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Ukrainians climb trees to catch cell service, work from supermarkets, wake up at 2am to catch electricity to finish work and make deadlines. Meanwhile, one Western uni that has uninterrupted power and Internet can’t process a payment for already 1,5 weeks. I just can’t…
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@PopovaProf
Oh definitely! Positionality is incredibly important in any explaining work. And acknowledging one’s positionality is even more so. Unfortunately, it is often disregarded
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A huge “thank you” to
@BASEES
for a swift and thoughtful response and for their unwavering commitment to supporting Ukrainian resistance 💙💛
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#Kherson
and the region right now. Self-organization by ordinary Ukrainians helps to save lives, bring water, evacuate people and animals
Pics by
@ShmatkoIvan
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Wars show the worst & the best in us. Self-organized & coordinated swift evac response in
#Kherson
is a testament to 🇺🇦 humanity & unwillingness to break.
All this while the ru lie & destroy all that’s alive & while international media resort to bothsidesism
📸 by
@ShmatkoIvan
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Oops I did it again… and agreed to talk about feminist activism in Ukraine, war, and global decolonial feminist solidarity!
Next Thursday, August 10 at 1pm ET (8pm Kyiv time)
I’ll post the link below
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I returned to 🇺🇸 from 🇺🇦 in mid-July to finish my PhD. I still shiver when a plane or a helicopter flies over my house because I remember very vividly the first days of the full-scale invasion. Still, I had it easy. Discontinuing aid to 🇺🇦 is enabling 🇷🇺 to go on with genocide
UKRAINE: Lawmakers tell me there is no way House will pass Ukraine aid in 2023.
@SpeakerJohnson
is firm on House leaving by Dec. 15 and no Senate deal in sight
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She says that people around are dying not from direct combat but rather from not having access to medicine. Medicine they are supplied with by the occupiers is almost always low quality.
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It’s estimated that up to 30% of Ukraine—an area about twice the size of Austria—has been contaminated with landmines and unexploded ordnance.
It is people like Nika and dogs like Gosha who help demine Ukraine and ensure that people here are safe
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Now all mass graves, tortures, ruined buildings, massacred civilians started to show up in my dreams as well. In a dream, I was helping to clear away the rubble, so bodies could be found. If you ever wondered what 🇺🇦 see these days when we close our eyes
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In the summer 2022, she started training as a deminer. She’s a real star and an inspiration to many!
Now she paves the way for women and girls wanting to become mine dog trainers and join the State Emergency Service
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I know that the representative from Switzerland has great voice, but really “I don’t want to be a soldier?” amidst the invasion of Ukraine? Not many here wanted to be soldiers as well but we didn’t have a choice! So tone deaf 🤦♀️
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So when ppl say “let’s get over w the war, I’m tired,” it’s essentially saying “I’m ok with Ukrainians dying as soon as they don’t do it loudly.” In other words, the West is ok with 🇷🇺 causing more structural violence & preventable deaths.
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US and NATO? Seriously? Don’t be so self-centered, the invasion of Ukraine is about Russian imperialism only
Dear
@nyuniversity
, as an NYU student from Ukraine I am highly concerned about your decision to give a platform to Putin‘s apologists like
@DavidNorthWSWS
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@battleforeurope
@g_shullenberger
But why is it a confrontation bw Ru and the US? From the point of view of a Ukrainian, this is Ru imperialism, plain and simple. The world does not revolve around the US
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@terrelljstarr
Thanks for a thoughtful thread! It really pains me when my fellow Ukrainians reiterate white supremacy talking points :(
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Every night we go to bed here in Ukraine wondering if tomorrow will be another mass missile strike. For us it’s not a question of whether the strike will happen again but rather of when. I wonder though how much more uncertainty we can tolerate before we all go mad
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I watched a few western news pieces about the war in Ukraine today and I am furious.
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A colleague and an amazing human being died near Bakhmut last week. This is a huge loss
On May 22, Ukrainian anthropologist and my friend Evgeny Osievsky died near Bakhmut.
He planned to go to Vanuatu in the field, to write a dissertation, but because of the Russian invasion, he ended up at the front instead. 1/7
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I’m reading news about Kherson and crying. Those are tears of relief and happiness, but also of anger as many civilians were tortured and killed for not willing to submit to the occupiers
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@g_shullenberger
@battleforeurope
I wonder if Ukraine ever figures in this brilliant book not as an object that the US or Russia are doing smth to but rather as a subject of politics?
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When people from Ukraine try to send medicine to this occupied territory, Russian soldiers as a rule take the medicine away. Sometimes you are lucky and you can smuggle medicine by bribing a soldier and/or sharing your medicine with them.
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Taken exactly one year ago on a stroll through central Kyiv. Happy birthday, my dear 🇺🇦
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Reactions that the universities spokespeople have offered so far are beyond ridiculous and offer no apologies, no concrete explanations as to how this happened, and no steps on how this will be remedied
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We transferred money to this woman today so she can buy some smuggled medicine for vulnerable people she used to care about when the NGO was working before the war.
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We picked up the medicine ppl asked for one minute before the air raid alert sounded AND while the pharmacy still had electricity ✅ This is what “perfect timing” means now
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So unsurprisingly there is a black market of medicine smuggled from Ukraine and this medicine costs incredible money. Many who stayed under the occupation cannot afford to buy life-saving medicine they need.
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A small yet important accomplishment: ✅ the first draft of a chapter for dissertation (Chapter 5 in the diss structure) is written!
I started with a chapter that felt most urgent. It’s far from done ofc, more edits will follow. But still, feels good to have at least smth done!
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But most importantly. Advocating for 🇺🇦 to cede territory, you advocate for more structural violence. Ukraine is not perfect. But it has more social equality than 🇷🇺, it better cares for the vulnerable groups, and has active civil society that mends the cracks left by the state.
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@unnamedleftist
I wish some hacker would break into her Patreon and donate all that money to people in Pakistan and Haiti. It would be a much better use of $$$ than supporting this genocide denier
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My
#ASEEES22
voyage has started! 🚊Kyiv-Chelm-Warsaw & then ✈️ to Chicago. Logistics is difficult because of the war. Kyiv used to be a big hub but it’s not now. But on the bright side, I can charge my laptop and phone on the train (pun not intended) and have coffee & waffles
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Ukrainians during scheduled black outs: 🤬 “Another black out, how many will there be, I cannot do anything!”
Ukrainians when a scheduled black out didn’t happen: 🤬 “I built my whole day around this black out and there’s none? How dare you? Don’t we have to save power?”
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To add some dates:
1. The book was published in 2010.
2. Kraepelin died in 1926.
3. Estonia was made a Soviet republic in the 1940s
4. The Soviet Union didn’t exist in the 19th century. At least in this timeline that we currently live in
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When “experts” nonchalantly suggest 🇺🇦 should concede territory because otherwise the war will be longer, I want to punch them in the face.
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Kyiv was hit by russian missiles this morning. It breaks my heart to read that at least 4 people are dead. And it also breaks my heart to call my grandma to ask how she is and hearing that “it was loud, you know, it reminds me of the WW2, when I was a child” 💔
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When the full-scale war broke out, Nika was in Ukraine. Some time before she adopted a stray dog named Joy and a kitten she named Zen. Here’s a photo of Joy the magnificent
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Source in Ukrainian
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This small detail is so telling tbh: rolling her eyes from the coziness of that studio at the suffering of millions
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Nika and I met during our undergrad many years ago. Since then, Nika has lived in Canada and Spain. In 🇨🇦, she received her master degree in Applied Logic and then she moved to 🇪🇸 for a PhD. She’s been also working in the IT industry for years
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Unfortunately, a lot of people in the West continue to cite Ishchenko on Ukraine. Although all his predictions about the invasion were wrong & he continuously dismisses and harasses left-leaning scholars and activists who disagree with his self-obsessive manipulations
To push its agenda, Ishchenko decided to literally ally with people, who openly endorse Stalin and deny Holodomor… and deliberately doesnt say that their audience is mostly Russian and that they never seen outside internet… Every manipulation from the book to push his agenda.
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